Wall-tie



(No Model.) Q I Q I W. R. HAYWOOD & T. R. GOUKEL. WALL TIE.

No. 589,481. Patented, Sept. 7, 18 97.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

WILLIAM R. HAYWOOD AND THOMAS R. GOOKEL, OF OOVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

WALL-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 589,481, dated September '7, 1897.

Application filed April 2 Z 1 8 9 '7.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM R. RAY- WOOD and THoMAs R. GocKEL, citizens of pressed-brick work in the construction of brick walls and the like; and it consists of a certain novel construction of tie whereby a much more secure and permanent bond may be obtained than by the wall-ties heretofore in use.

The common method of securing or bonding pressed-brick work to the common brick in the construction of walls is to form a diagonal recess on the rear face of the pressedbrick work and connecting the pressed brick to the common brick by headers filling these spaces. WVall-ties have also been employed for this purpose consisting of looped pieces of wire which every few courses are laid across from the pressed brick to the common brick to serve as atie between them, but with the wall-ties heretofore in use the tie is simply laid on the surface of the brick, and consequently does not form as perfect a tie as it would were there some means devised for permanently locking the tie over the edge of the brick. It is the purpose of our invention to overcome this objection by the construction of ties hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our wall-tie. Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofsame. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a wall, showing the ties in place.

The tie is constructed out ol' a single piece of wire composed of shank a, one end of which is bent around tolform a slightly-open loop b, with the extremity c projecting at right angles to the shank and in the same plane with the loop. The other end of the wire is also bent into a loop (Z at right angles to the Serial N0- 633,243. (No model.)

shank a, with the end 6 projecting back in the same plane with the loop parallel to the outer side of the loop and at right angles to the shank a, so that the planes of the two loops are at right angles to each other, the end 6 projecting within the angle formed by the first bend of the loop 01 and the shank.

In Fig. 3 we show the method of using the tie, in which A indicates the courses of common brick and B the pressed-brick facing. Every three or four courses the ties are laid on the surface of the brick with the open loop end resting on the pressed brick, with the other loop lying just over the inside surface of the common brick, so that when the next course of common brick is laid the end 6 of this loop will bear against the inner surface of the two common-brick courses, thus permanently securing the tie to the common brick.

It is often desired to bind a pressed-brick facing to a wooden wall or framework, and our construction of inner loop d, in which the end of the loop 6 passes up within the bend of the loop and the shank, enables us to staple to the Woodwork the end 6, so that the weight and pressure on the tie cannot unbend the wire'at this point, the end chaving a brace within the bend of the loop.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, a wall-tie,

made of a single piece of wire composed of a straight shank portion with end loops whose planes are at right angles with each other, one loop being slightly open with the end projecting at right angles to the shank the other loop being closed with the end projecting back at'right angles to the shank within the bend of theloop with the shank, substantially as shown and described.

WVILLIAM R. RAYXVOOD. THOMAS R. GOOKEL. Witnesses:

GEORGE HEIDMAN, H. GATES EDWARDS. 

